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It seems like a pretty intense place to be standing—but then you have to remember ... So how can we simulate evolution to build AGI?

So genes are like gravity—but animals aren't like atoms. Mindless evolutionary innovation brought survival tricks like feelings and subjective ...

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19.10.2014 · I hope I’ve convinced you how important this is. Don’t wait until your deathbed to figure out what life is all about. _____ If you’re into Wait But Why, sign up for the Wait But Why email list and we’ll send you the new posts right when they come out.

Since the dawn of human evolution, humans have been forming giants called tribes. In my head, an ancient human tribe looks something like this:.

We then get to your grandfather, great grandfather, and eventually ... the smartest to thrive, pushing the quick evolution of bigger brains.

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Aug 29, 2019 · Somewhere down the line of human history, evolution happened upon a new tool that put human tribalism on steroids. That’s what we’ll explore in the next chapter. Chapter 3: A Story of Stories _____ To keep up with this series, sign up for the Wait But Why email list and we’ll send you the new posts right when they come out.

Jan 12, 2015 · It could be that a document produced bye one of our think tanks is being looked at in the far future (perhaps a future after a great cataclysm which forced humanity to start over again). We decided that the content of that document was insane, but we just had to look at the possibility because we where facing a certain problem. Now if the first ...

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12.01.2015 · It could be that a document produced bye one of our think tanks is being looked at in the far future (perhaps a future after a great cataclysm which …

27.01.2015 · Welcome to Part 2 of the “Wait how is this possibly what I’m reading I don’t get why everyone isn’t talking about this” series. Part 1 started innocently enough, as we discussed Artificial Narrow Intelligence, or ANI (AI that specializes in one narrow task like coming up with driving routes or playing chess), and how it’s all around us in the world today.

18.12.2013 · A handy pictorial guide to our very ancient ancestors: Wait but Why: The Truth About Evolution.

22.01.2015 · This term has been used in math to describe an asymptote-like situation where normal rules no longer apply. It’s been used in physics to describe a phenomenon like an infinitely small, dense black hole or the point we were all squished into right before the Big Bang. Again, situations where the usual rules don’t apply.

Dec 18, 2013 · Now we reach a time before humans were fully humans, and a time when a very special man lived. Scientists call him Y-chromosomal Adam.Y-chromosomal Adam is the most recent male ancestor from whom all current living humans are descended—in other words, he’s not just your great 14,000 grandfather, he is everyone’s great 14,000 grandfather, and the last time in history a common male ...

22.09.2011 · The question of the pattern of stasis (no change) versus gradualism (persistent and continuous change) in the fossil record continues. A new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Uyeda et al. comprises a huge survey and analysis of morphological change in animals (mammals, birds, squamate reptiles, and primates) over ten…

Variety is the source of all of evolutionary innovation, and the flexibility of our beliefs made human evolution a creative paradise. ______.

18.12.2013 · Now we reach a time before humans were fully humans, and a time when a very special man lived. Scientists call him Y-chromosomal Adam.Y-chromosomal Adam is the most recent male ancestor from whom all current living humans are descended—in other words, he’s not just your great 14,000 grandfather, he is everyone’s great 14,000 grandfather, and the last …

We're all incredibly self-absorbed, and in being so, we forget to care ... Finally, I know I already made this point in the evolution post, ...

Jan 27, 2015 · Welcome to Part 2 of the “Wait how is this possibly what I’m reading I don’t get why everyone isn’t talking about this” series. Part 1 started innocently enough, as we discussed Artificial Narrow Intelligence, or ANI (AI that specializes in one narrow task like coming up with driving routes or playing chess), and how it’s all around ...

Jan 22, 2015 · The downside of copying evolution is that evolution likes to take a billion years to do things and we want to do this in a few decades. But we have a lot of advantages over evolution. First, evolution has no foresight and works randomly—it produces more unhelpful mutations than helpful ones, but we would control the process so it would only ...

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So there are 100 Earth-like planets for every grain of sand in the world. ... There's some stage in that long evolutionary process that is ...

If the Earth formed at midnight and the present moment is the next midnight, 24 hours later, modern humans have been around since 11:59:59pm—1 ...